Thursday, June 22, 2017

squrwemells.....oh jeesh!

a beautiful day for sure!

but a fricken squermell came on the porch through a catdoor, ate the whole bowl of snackedy-moes at the crack of dawn and then couldn't figure out how to get out so screeched his face off. ugh. 2 of the catdoors don't even have doors on them - and then there is all of the open space at the top of the porch to get out. but no, this guy just sat and screeched! at 4:30am!!! so we got up - even though last night we talked about sleeping in together until 9am!!! didn't happen kids. we had to get up and then there's feeding these 4 cats who have really gotten used to be "mcsauged" and fed whenever they feel like it. oh ya i forgot to mention Moey-Shambie getting into bed with us in the middle of the night and grooming himself for 2 straight hours. and he makes the loudest licking noises!

wasn't a bad day tho kids! jambaloney brought home crab yesterday that had been caught that very day!

of course we made proper california rolls and dipping sauce.

need a treat after breakfast but you still have garden jobs and it's not dinner-time yet? yo dudes - plate a fruit?

strawberries from the mainland are in their peak this time of year! strawberry, spinach, fresh roasted almonds and feta anyone? how about a "to-die-for" dressing of black currant vinegar and hemp oil?

with lots of pepper of course!

mid-afternoon break was some leftover sushi rice and bean sprouts.

supper will be steak and grilled veggies - yummeh! but supper ain't happening until we get a nap! we're wore out kids! and the deer flies are now out. jambaloney is covered in deer fly bites! they love him more than me - thank goodness because the black flies love me!!!!

another horribly wonderful day at the Manor. bed is calling and when bed calls - you don't answer back. you just follow bed's instructions.

sending love to all of you, expesiously (spelled like that on purpose!)

19 comments:

Pet doors sure can make rural life interesting. :)That strawberry salad...omg. Yum!I discovered your recipe sidebar and you would not believe how often your name is mentioned in our house. It's the Kymber Cooking Show around here, you put Martha Stewart to shame. :)

hi Vonne - sooo nice to see you! and yes - having 4 cat doors on the porch makes for some interesting visitors - like jam's favourite bluejay who comes in, eats the snackedy-moes and then flies around in a panic until one of us goes and lets him out the door. and then there's that squirrel - arghghghgh! but the cats need all of the doors because they are all door guarders!!!! drives us nuts!

i really want to keep adding recipes to the food blog but i just don't have the time. your very sweet comment just make me get up and keep adding to it.

i love it when you visit - you are always uplifting in your comments and i thank you for that! xoxoxo

And thank you for your kind words! I wouldn't even know where to start with a blog, I'm not very tech savvy. I did recently open an Instagram acc and it took me 3 days to figure that out, lol! My nephew works overseas and he suggested it for photo sharing. It also dawned on me earlier today that I could use it for photo sharing with my blog friends since I don't have a blog. Then when I'm bragging about my giant tomatoes( for Texas) I can show photographic proof! Ha! I'm only getting started, but if you're interested, it Instagram dot com / prairietallgrass. I'll be adding more pics soon, and I'm still not sure if I understand about how the comment thing works! Ha! My husband is seriously paranoid about info going out on the internet so I'll probably go private with the Instagram acc before I start putting any shots of us on there, but I still need to figure all that out too. Okay. Check me out if you want. :)

Ed - we have tiny red squirrels here - think the size of a small potatoe. by the time you got them skinned - you'd have half of a potatoe. just not worth the bother. but man do they screech! sending love buddy! xoxoxo

Yikes! Heck of a way to be woken up from a deep sleep. Crazy, lunatic squirrel. And isn't it amazing how LOUD cats can be in the middle of the night? haha Lately, it has been the bull in the field next to the house. He munches on the dry grasses just outside the window and it sounds like someone out there eating potato chips!

Oh, those little red devils! They are insane! My cat, Slimbo, grunts and licks. It is LOUD. I had to ban him from the bedroom. The only cat I ever let sleep on the bed was my girl, Tippet. She would snug up next to me and go out like a light - never moved. OOOOh! That salad! I may have to whip one up!

Susan - we hear you on loud cat licking sounds - man he drives us near crazy! your Tippet sounds like a fantastic cat - i think it might be a female thing because these 4 males are the first ones i've had in my adult life. the first part of my adult life i just had girls and they never made this much racket!!!!i hope you whipped up that salad! xoxoxoxo

That sounds like an adventure - like all things, living out where the critters are. Our local fluffy tail population are much more gray and are interested in the bird seed from the bird feeders. Poppy has discovered quite the entertainment value in trying to catch them.

TB - i hope that you and your family are having a fantastic vacation - you deserve it buddy! and ya - we get lots of interesting visitors but nothing like bears or bobcats or coywolves - they all keep to themselves thank goodness! we don't even have raccoons! which just made me remember the raccoon encounter we had one year back in the city....we found the best way to control them was to save all of our food scraps throughout the day and set out the "raccoon buffet" on the step at night. our previous neighbours should have been thanking us! xoxoxooxx

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Who Are We?

we are jambaloney and kymber. here's a pic of us below...we look very happy and content. it's because we really are!

About jambaloney

(he's only 23 in this pic...he has 20+years of additional muscle now...if you can believe it!)

kymber here and talking about jambaloney.

i've always called him my angel. my rock. my best half. the best part of what i have always wanted to become.

he has a soul as big as the biggest mountain, he is strong, he is in incredible physical condition, he is 51 and yet most people think he is under 40. he is humble and modest, charming, gorgeous and will help anyone with anything at anytime. he never grumbles and only every now and again complains or is a tiny bit cranky (nothing that a hug can't fix!). he can cut both sides out of 70 tires in minutes, build raised beds from scrap wood that he drags out of the forest, weedwhack 800ft of our road down to the river, and haul more wheelbarrows of dirt, mulch, rocks and seaweed than is probably medically-advised. he's learned how to braid, make bread and no one makes better rice - not even the chinese. he supports my every, crazy endevour. he went 44 years without a driver's license and got his license after being trained by my crazily-wonderful french canadian friend in 2 weeks. she never stopped talking the whole time. in french.

he has biked everywhere his entire life, at one job he biked 24km EACH WAY. that's to and from! 24km to work AND 24km from work! oh and just accidentally has an honours degree in philosophy.

i believe that he is Our Lord's most beautiful and perfect creation. but i might be biased. he can very accurately shoot a ben pearson cougar re-curve from both the left and right. and his aim is dead on.

he is bow-legged and only 5'7", but has the most incredible eyes. and a tiny mole on his upper lip. he writes the most romantic "insta-poems". he tells me he loves me several times a day. he calls me "babe" and "honey". and he means it.he loves hot sauce and spicey things like cayenne and banana peppers, he buys (or now picks) me flowers, he left a lucrative, high-paying IT job and his family to follow me here to this remote little island. he builds me shelves and washes all of our laundry with me by hand.

oh and he was baptized Anglican. and was an alter boy. sheesh. somehow, through my intervention, i am turning him into a pagan-christian-fundamentalist-confuscian. look, even i can't figure that out!

the name jambaloney is a nickname that i gave him over 10 years ago. he still uses it. he can be reached at "jambaloney@gmail.com". he loves comments or emails. and he loves me.

if i were given the opportunity to wish one thing for the world - i would wish that every woman on the planet had a jambaloney. i know that i could save the world this way. i have friends who have asked me to clone him. i am trying. believe me, i am trying. one day i will perfect the science involved, and when that happens, i promise all of you a jambaloney.

i love him more than...breathing, lobster, boiled dinner, fresh bread out of the oven, bugging out, singing back up for Madonna (ok...i made that one up!), fresh sheets on the bed, a glass of red wine after a long day, sunflower seeds, lavender, growing my own potatoes, T.S. Eliot, dancing, my babies (who are really just cranky old cats!) and the Bible.

i love him more than i love Framboise Manor. and i really love Framboise Manor.

About kymber

(this pic might seem odd. trust me, it's not. 20 yrs ago kymber went shopping with a girlfriend from the military and bought this dress. then she hooked up with that girlfriend recently. they caught up through email and one day kymberz friend mentioned that specific dress. kymber said she still had it (kymber still has her prom gown for crying out loud!). the friend did not believe it. so we had to take a pic of kymber wearing the 20yr old dress for her friend. kymber always likes to add accessories...and well, we had the bunny ears laying around. ya know, cuz everyone always has pink bunny ears laying around. ok, that's it...i am out of here! jambaloney)

what can i say about kymber?? A LOT!!most of it will have to wait for blog entries ‘cuz i just don’t have enough space here to do her justice…

so i’ll have to do my best… first and foremost, kymber is my partner and i will love her forever. she is the best partner anyone could ever have, i am one lucky guy!! she is 46, she is sweet as can be, smart as a whip, super cute, exceptionally feminine, strong as an ox, honest, kind, empathetic, wise, an amazing dancer, a master wit in speaking and writing….i could go on..i will!

at 5’ 1’’ she packs a wallop – a true force of nature -she is a master gardener and chef and spent 10 years in the Canadian Military – she has done 2 tours of Alert (the north bloody-cold pole). she is a UN-certified Korean linguist and spoils our 2 cats rotten. she also spent 12yrs working in the federal government, as a communications analyst at SolGen (now PSEPC) and Fintrac. she loves nature in the true sense of the phrase..the wildflowers, insects and birds here at framboise manor keep her entranced and captivated for hours.

anyone who is her friend knows that she will stop at nothing to help and heal, dedication and loyalty are an integral part of who she is and she is dead serious about anything she puts her mind to. yet she maintains the most delicate touch and a smile on her face always, never afraid to live and love no matter where and when.

she is the most genuine human being i have ever met! and she has encouraged me to embark on the most crazy and exciting adventure i could imagine… thank you babe - i sooo love you!!!